Author : Kelil Ali and Rahul Joshi

Stemming is the action of removing affix from inflected words to their base stem word. Eg, in the set {speaker,
speaking, speaks} the stem is ‘speak’. Affix is contains of suffix and prefix. Suffix attached at end of root word
whereas prefix is attached beginning of root word (Bijal Dalwadi, 2016). In general, word-stemming algorithm is
developed for various AI (artificial intelligence) applications based on the morphological rules of specific natural
languages. It is used in IR systems, indexing, document mining, document classifiers, document summarization,
dictionary search etc. (Bijal Dalwadi, 2016)(Belal Abuata, 2005). In this survey the researcher refers articles, journal, and books those are directly related to research domain. In this paper the researcher try to review the related articles of previous Afaraf morphology works done, to guide us to design stemmer and understand Afaraf language morphological rules. And obtained good understanding on fundamental and state of the arts of the domain and tried to access latest approaches, methods and techniques.

Keywords: Afaraf, Stemming, Affix, Prefix, Suffix, Rule based technique, over stemming, under stemming.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.6 (Nov/Dec 2017)